This research benefitted from the what can be called the "timistic clutter
cutter." Timism is a system of
information organization based on a discovered unity of existence. Timism
is the periodic table of existence. Timism was used in researching, analyzing
and developing the specifics of the oil-drought connection.

The timistic paradigm is similar to the periodic table of elements in chemistry,
only broader and more encompassing, including the table of elements. Instead
of using temperatures and weights to establish periodicity, the existence
behind the table has used the simple and obvious: time. For sysnopsis of
timism, see summary and
essay.

All of the components of the energy picture are quantifiable in time: oil
molecules, wind, temperature, oil extractors and oil users. The intermediate
product is time
based--currency--what
is your time currently worth. The relative accumulation of wealth
or time is named after time:
profit, pro esse. The
basic wealth of humanity and of existence, time, is obscured by economists
building houses of cards on spiderwebs and by financial bureaucrats building
futures in sand traps.

The basic or timistic economics of energy are as follows.

Forget about numbers on papers (dollars, pesos, yens) all of which are used
for smoke and mirrors by middle men. Think in the basic value of life, lifehours.

Think in terms of energy use making you feel good today but rotten tomorrow
like getting stupid drunk or hooked.

Consider the following cost of a barrel of oil which when transformed into
automobiles or electricity save consumers, say, 100 hours of labor. The following
shows that energy use is profitable at the start, moreso for a politicians
than the polity, but an unprofitable transaction as its residual impact exacts
reparation payments on future generations--an
environmental after-the-fact tax.

State of Oil or Coal

Life
hours

Earthly
Profit

Buyers
Losers

Non-payers

In ground

none

0

none

none

Extract, Process & Transport

20

-20

bookkeeping

oil companies

Consumer buy for 50 lifehours of wages

0

30

consumers

habitual politicians

Consumers use for 100 lifehours, gain 50 lifehours

100

50

environment of future

habitual politicians

Reparation Payments In the currency that transcends the
boundaries of nations and centuries--human lifehours--the pump price of energy
is just a downpayment. The following hidden costs charged not once but many
times--see Post-pump or -meter
charges.

While the figures are off, the use of
lifehours instead
of the numbers on paper (money) used by economists allows one to see how
energy use can be a losing proposition for humanity. As with other economic
consideration
(inflation/deflation),
capitalism/decapitalism), the
use of lifehours unites the symbols of our time with the substance of our
time to see if we are really creating a better, more
profitable life.

Consider this analysis from another perspective, in particular, Brazil's
importing natural gas from Bolivia to generate electricity:

How much electricity is generated by the release of one molecule of carbon
dioxide?

How much hydroelectric generation is lost by that one C02 molecule binding
with 35 molecules of water to prevent precipitation?

More basically, how much does a human being benefit from the generation of
the electricity that produces one molecule of C02? How much human suffering
is there from the loss of 35 water molecules that go someplace other than
where humans originally settled because there was sufficient water in the
past?

When lifehours are used as the currency counter, economists cannot hide behind
the cliche: Economists know the price of everything but the value of
nothing. Playing with numbers is easy. Playing honestly with the right
numbers is often non-existent. Of all the number runners and number players
that have harmed humanity, the worst are the economists hired by politicians
to hide the truth behind numbers, e.g., the
tobacco
industry.

The above timistic analysis does not adequately answer the question: Have
we passed the point where the time-savings of a barrel of oil or ton of coal
are negated by the time-losses due to environment changes? Clearly, oil
did not have today's long-term costs when Colonel Drake gave birth to the
modern oil industry in Titusville, PA, 1857. Have we past the point where
oil is wasting more time than it is saving? Is oil too much
sugar, insulin or alcohol?

If you asked this writer--a timist sine qua non--his conclusion is
that we haven't yet paid fully for the gasoline
burned in 1980's. The point of net human losses in lifehours was years ago.

If you asked the people

who gain millions of lifehours (dollars) to enslave others and

who don't pay the long-term, on-going, annual reparation payments
they will only think of the money they make each year that will let them
live, play and retire someplace other than where they get their dirty money.

In other words, the
money
dictators behind the
habitual politicians
will never accept or acknowledge that a point of no human profits exists
in the oil industry. Sayeth the oil baron, "If hungry, let them eat dust
... If thirsty, the oceans are full of water." Increased oil production is
a Saltwater
solution to our energy crises.

Oil is analogous another reputed tool of productivity: Slavery. George
Washington argued that in the big picture, the country did
not benefit overall in the short-term or long-term from
slavery. As only a few plantation masters benefit from salvery so
do only a few oil families gain from the enslavement of humnaity
to oil.

The term "reparation" payments is used not only because it describes the
on-going, annual debits from new income for old mistakes, but it captures
the inevitable consequences of reparation payments. If there was a single
cause for the German hyperinflation of the 1920's that led to Nazi extremism,
it was the reparation payments exacted on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles.
The difference between the Germany then and humanity today is that the reparation
source and fascist response are one and the same: Eco
Fascists.

At the beginning of the 3rd Millennium, one need not look far to see the
rise of extremism throughout the world because of inflationary price hikes
and suffering. Even if OPEC kept the price of oil stable, the rising cost
of oil damage will push humanity into an economic depression as more time
goes to contend with the oil drought problems. Ironically, the political
transfer of
wealth has initiated a depression that will curtail oil production which
will be good for humanity. Better an economic depression from political fraud,
corruption and stupidity than one from the oil. One can be corrected in a
few years at the next election. The other might never be correctable.

The primary physical reason for rising environmental reparation inflation
is the abuse of energy resources. The primary human reasons are
habitual politicians,
money
dictators, American consumers
and human procreators. The only force that can change the decline are
the American habitual politicians. In light of their nullifying
campaign
and
voting
reform, no change is going to happen.

The energy reparation costs are going to increase even if we cut our energy
consumption. If the Texas oil cartel that
controls the White House have their way, the reparation payments will increase
faster with the existence of civilization becoming the final reparation payment.
We are in an economic, existential
meltdown.

The above analysis was completed before the World
Trade Center Terrorism. Would it have happened without the
modern black plague of oil? Oil provided the money for Osama Bin Laden to
traipse from drought-stricken country to drought-stricken country recruiting
victims of upwind oil fields: Yemen, Sudan, Kenya, Afghanistan, Pakistan,
etc. Each act of terrorism funded by oil dollars and fueled by oil droughts
increases the timistic losses of each barrel of oil.

020808
Global oil demand recovery on track
"THE INTERNATIONAL ENERGY Agency (IEA) said it expected demand to jump
sharply in the fourth quarter this year and continue through 2003, even though
its performance so far this year has been sluggish."